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The fruit baskets and their stands were the only kind of items in the Green Frog Service on which there was physically no room to place landscape paintings. While the uneven "wickerwork" bottom of the basket still permitted the depiction of the shield with the green frog without appreciable distortions, more extensive compositions would have looked extremely untidy with details displaced in relation to one another and arbitrarily interrupted lines. Nevertheless, it was precisely the tiny dimensions and "awkward" shape of areas which allowed painted decoration that gave Wedgwood’s artists the opportunity to reveal their talent as minaturists. We need only take a glance at the delicacy of the depiction of the leaves and strands of ivy on the bottom of the basket and on the inside of its vertical "withes" to grasp the extremely high standard that the decorative painting attains here. |
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